Failures of retrieval and comparison constrain change detection in natural scenes.

In a change detection paradigm, a target object in a natural scene either rotated in depth, was replaced by another object token, or remained the same. Change detection performance was reliably higher when a target postcue allowed participants to restrict retrieval and comparison processes to the target object (Experiment 1). Change detection performance remained excellent when the target object was not attended at change (Experiment 2) and when a concurrent verbal working memory load minimized the possibility of verbal encoding. (Experiment 3). Together, these data demonstrate that visual representations accumulate in memory from attended objects as the eyes and attention are oriented within a scene and that change blindness derives, at least in part, from retrieval and comparison failure. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Analytical prediction of composite beams response in fire situations

In this paper an extension of the method of the Fourier series expansion to the fire analysis of composite beams is presented. In particular the extension concerns the introduction of the temperature dependent interaction of all the components: steel beams, concrete slab and steel connectors. These last are considered of finite stiffness, and a proper account is given to the combined effect of thermal degradation of the properties, and stress amplification caused by the differential thermal expansion across the interface.The proposed method compares very well with some experimental fire tests of simply supported and framed composite beams. Due to its relative simplicity and speed, it can be used for design purposes in evaluating the critical temperature in terms of critical deflection. Finally we recall that the method is capable of dealing with every type of fastening distribution, such as discontinuous or variable length.     

饲料级磷酸氢钙中氟的几种分析方法比较

本文采用茜素络合酮比色法和氟离子选择电极法对饲料磷酸氢钙进行氟的测定实验对比,得出常用的氟离子选择电极法完全可以代替经典的蒸馏比色法的结论。     

社会比较对薪酬不公平感的心理作用机制

运用社会比较理论,分析了在组织内部影响薪酬不公平感的社会比较类型与评判内容;利用对比效应与同化效应,解释了薪酬不公平感的形成。在此基础上,探讨了人力资源管理中减少或克服人际攀比带来不良影响的途径。     

Increasing testing productivity and software quality: A comparison of software testing methodologies within NASA

Pressure to compress the development life cycle and reduce the duration and resources committed to testing lead to experimentation in testing at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Centerís Software Engineering Laboratory. This study investigates the trend to reduce developer testing and increasingly rely upon inspection techniques and independent functional testing to shorten the development life cycle, improve testing productivity, and improve software quality.An approach is developed to conduct this comparison. In particular, the problem faced by software researchers, having a comprehensive characterization of software projects so similar types may be identified for comparative studies, is addressed using expert opinion.     

IRS-P6 LISS-3和Landsat-5 TM两种多光谱传感器影像数据的对比分析

随着载有各种新型传感器的卫星相继发射升空,不同传感器之间的相互比较成了一个研究热点。首先从传感器的轨道特征、光谱范围等方面对IRS-P6 LISS-3和Landsat-5 TM进行了机理方面的对比分析,选取3对同日过空的遥感影像,研究了IRS-P6 LISS-3和Landsat-5 TM遥感数据在可见光-近红外、短红外各对应光谱波段之间的关系,建立TM和LISS-3各波段之间的相互转换公式,与Chander等提出的转换公式进行对比分析。结果表明:实际TM和模拟TM多光谱数据之间具有较强的相关关系,决定系数R²均大于0.97;模拟TM与实际TM的水体指数(MNDWI)和归一化植被指数(NDVI)空间散点分布和实际LISS-3与实际TM的空间散点分布相比,具有更强的相关关系,其决定系数R²有一定提高,散点分布趋于对称。因此,所求的关系转换方程具有较高的精度和有效性,效果优于Chander等提出的转换公式。     

Safe and intuitive manual guidance of a robot manipulator using adaptive admittance control towards robot agility

Key areas of robot agility include methods that increase capability and flexibility of industrial robots and facilitate robot re-tasking. Manual guidance can achieve robot agility effectively, provided that a safe and smooth interaction is guaranteed when the user exerts an external force on the end effector. We approach this by designing an adaptive admittance law that can adjust its parameters to modify the robot compliance in critical areas of the workspace, such as near and on configuration singularities, joint limits, and workspace limits, for a smooth and safe operation. Experimental validation was done with two tests: a constraint activation test and a 3D shape tracing task. In the first one, we validate the proper response to constraints and in the second one, we compare the proposed approach with different admittance parameter tuning strategies using a drawing task where the user is asked to guide the robot to trace a 3D profile with an accuracy or speed directive and evaluate performance considering path length error and execution time as metrics, and a questionnaire for user perception. Results show that appropriate response to individual and simultaneous activation of the aforementioned constraints for a safe and intuitive manual guidance interaction is achieved and that the proposed parameter tuning strategy has better performance in terms of accuracy, execution time, and subjective evaluation of users.     

Randomized range-maxima in nearly-constant parallel time

Given an array ofn input numbers, therange-maxima problem is that of preprocessing the data so that queries of the type what is the maximum value in subarray [i..j] can be answered quickly using one processor. We present a randomized preprocessing algorithm that runs inO(log^* n) time with high probability, using an optimal number of processors on a CRCW PRAM; each query can be processed in constant time by one processor. We also present a randomized algorithm for a parallel comparison model. Using an optimal number of processors, the preprocessing algorithm runs inO( (n)) time with high probability; each query can be processed inO ( (n)) time by one processor. (As is standard, (n) is the inverse of Ackermann function.) A constant time query can be achieved by some slowdown in the performance of the preprocessing stage.     

基于小波变换的语音同步方法研究

为提高语音通信干扰效果客观评估中标准语音文件和受扰语音文件的同步精度,对军标GJB4405A-2006中规定的标准语音文件增设了高低频交叉的双音频同步头;介绍了小波消噪的原理,利用2层sym小波对受扰语音文件进行了消噪处理,将同步头中的高频信号作为噪声进行大幅削弱;设计了基于幅度比较的同步算法,找出同步基准点,并对20组受扰严重的语音文件的进行了仿真测试,仿真结果证明了该方法得到的同步精度符合后续数据处理的要求。